HarveyBerrymanCash

CASH, Harvey Berryman (Berry) Oct. 12, 1938April 10, 2018 Harvey Berryman "Berry" Cash, 79, passed away on April 10, 2018, after a 40-year battle with cancer. His loving wife, JoBeth, was his comfort to the end. Berry was born October 12, 1938, in Houston, Texas, the only child of Harvey and Mary Berryman Cash. During WWII, the family moved to Washington, DC, where Berry started public school. Family stints in Texas, Tulsa, and New York followed, and Berry's father ended his career as an executive vice-president of then-Texaco, in Pelham, New York, where Berry graduated from high school. Berry followed his father's path to Texas A & M, where he was recruited to run track, as well as to study engineering. Berry graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in engineering and a commission in the Air Force; his subsequent tour of duty as a ground electronics officer took him to Michigan's NORAD headquarters. While there, he earned an MBA from Western Michigan University. After leaving the Air Force, Berry joined Dallas' TI in 1964choosing that company over Hewlett Packard where he had also interviewed, in part because on the day of his TI interview, a Dixieland Band was playing in the hallway to celebrate successful completion of a project. In 1969, Cash left TI with other TI alums L. J. Sevin, Louay Sharif, Bob Palmer and Vin Prothro to found Mostek. Over three years, their CMOS chip design became steadily more competitive, leading in turn, to producing some of the world's first hand-held calculators. Mostek had a successful Initial Public Offering and ran as an independent public company for a number of years. In 1980, United Technologies purchased Mostek, after which Berry began a series of entrepreneurial projects--launch-ing companies and products, investing, and consulting. As a result of a Mostek-era friendship with Steve Jobs, he worked with Apple Computer as Jobs developed the first Macintosh. He was a founder of ProNet and continued to work on a variety of investment and technology projects, helping to take one company public, restructuring another, and securing an international partner for a third. In 1982, Berry founded Berry Cash Southwest Partnership, a venture capital fund targeting new technology investments. After one successful fund accomplished on his own, he decided in 1985 to join InterWest Partners, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that had been an investor in his fund to form their Texas office. Berry had an outstanding record as an investor who could find breakthrough technology ideas and build giant companies from them. His specialty was semiconductor companies but he had successes in software, telecommunications and hardware companies as well. Berry was one of the top investors in the venture capital industry from a financial return standpoint, but he was also one of the most admired investors for his measured, reasoned and valuable advice as a board member to help build and guide the management teams to success. CEOs loved having Berry Cash on their board as they built successful companies together. In 1994, Berry joined the board of Ciena as one of their first-round investors. Ciena became one of InterWest's most successful investments, and he continued his service as a board member long after Ciena became a public company, helping guide them until his death. In addition, Berry was an investor and long-time director of Crystal Semiconductor, i2 Technologies, Silicon Laboratories, First Acceptance Corporation, and Argo Group International Holdings. In addition to Berry's formidable business and technology career, he was an inveterate traveler, who criss-crossed the world throughout his life for business and pleasure, and a voracious reader, mainly of nonfiction. His refuge and joy was his and JoBeth's extraordinary home in Santa Fe, where they were avid gardeners who regularly entertained scores of friends from around the world. Among the greatest blessings of the many that graced Berry's life were the streams of friends and family members who visited constantly through the last five months of Berry's illness. At first they brought food and joined him at the dining room table or in the living room. As his illness progressed, they gathered in his bedroom for cocktails, conversation and stories from the master raconteur, remembering and laughing about wonderful times together that will never be forgotten. Berry was magnetic, beloved by his friends and family and his faithful standard poodles who visibly mourn him. He is survived by his soulmate, companion, and wife of fifteen years, JoBeth Maglathlin Cash. He is also survived by his children with Laura Weems, son Charlie Cash (Rachael Cash) and grandchildren Caroline, Mary, Charles, and Henry Cash, and daughter Leslie Lafaye and grandchildren Brennan and Emma Lafaye. The children he shared with Dianne Tripplehorn Cash are Ashley Tripplehorn Hunt (Ward Hunt) and grandchildren Robert and Vivienne Hunt; Elizabeth Tripplehorn Laurenzi (Alex Laurenzi) and grandchildren David and Madison Hammer and Indigo Hawkins; and David Tripplehorn Cash. Loyal friend and helper Greg Tellez assisted Berry and JoBeth for decades and was a constant steadying presence through the final months of Berry's illness. In addition, Berry and JoBeth owe a great debt of gratitude to caregivers Pius, Faith, Felicia, and Melody. A memorial service celebrating Berry's life will take place on Monday, April 23, at 1 p.m., Highland Park United Methodist Church, followed by a reception at the Church. In lieu of flowers, please consider a contribution to the in his name.

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